Fabric for jewelry



(No Model.)

F. PONTNEAU.

FABRIC POR JEWELRY. No. 299,972. Patented June 10,1884.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRANK FONTNEAU, OF ATTLEBOROUGH,MASSACHUSETTS.

FABRIC FOR JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION-forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,972, dated .Tune10, 1884.

Application filed January 20,1883.

4 To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that l, FRANK FONTNEAU, of Attleborough, Bristol county,State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inFabrics for Jewelry; and 'I do hereby declare that the followingspecification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,forming apart of the same, is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof.

This invention consists in a fabric for bracelets, necklaces, and otherarticles of jewelry, which is composed of wires, wound spirally,inserted into each other laterally, and connected together by wires,which lock or tie the adjacent spirals to each other, the whole beingbent into tubular form, as will hereinafter appear.

lReferring to the drawings, which are on an enlarged scale, Figure 1represents two spiral wires wound right and left handed, respectively,inserted into each other laterally and conv nccted bya tie-wire. Fig.2represents a number of such connected spiral wires before being bentinto a fabric of tubular form. Fig. 3 shows an end view of the same.Fig. 4 represents a side View of a seamless tubular fabric made bybending the connected wires shown in Figs. 2 and 3 in a direction a-tright angles to the length of their tie-wires, interlocking the twooutside spirals, and connecting them by a tie-wire. Fig. 5 shows an endView of said fabric. Fig. 6 represents an end view of a tubular fabricmade by bending the connected spirals inthe direction of the length ofthe tie-wires. Fig. 7 shows several wires wound spirally in the samedirection and connected together by tie-wires.

In constructing my improved fabric the spiral wires a b,respectively,wound right and left handed, of any length, and in numberaccording to the diameter of the tube to be made, are alternated,inserted into each other laterally, and connected or locked together bytie -wires c, vpreferably annealed, which pass through adjacent spiralsin a direction longitudinally of the same, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Afabric in the form of a seamless tube, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, may beproduced from these connected spirals by bend- (No model.)

ing them in a direction at right angles to the length of the tic-wires cand interlocking the two outside spirals and connecting them by atie-wire, thus making the fabric circular in transverse section. In thisform the fabric is very flexible, and is particularly adapted for coilbracelets and necklaces. As shown in Fig. 6, a tubular fabric may alsobe formed by bending the connected spirals (shown in Figs. 2 and 3) inthe direction of the length of the tie-wires c, thus making the fabriccircular in transverse section. In this form of tube the ends of thespiral and the tie-wires are preferably burred or faced off, so as topresent a neat appearance, and are brought into a position adjacent toeach other. rI`his fabric is also adapted for bracelets a-nd necklaces,the seam d being arranged upon the inner side of the article.

In place of using right and left hand spiral wires in alternation, ashereinbefore described,

the fabric may be composed of spiral wires,

all wound in the same direction, either right or left, inserted intoeachother laterally, and connected by tie-wires, as indicatedin Fig. 7.

I am aware that bracelets have heretofore been :made of spiral wireswhich are intertwined by screwing said wires together side by side;also, of spiral wires intertwined in groups of two, and said groupsconnected by a longitudinal tie-wire; also, of right and left handspiral wires, which are inserted into each other laterally, andconnected by longitudinal tie-wires. These fabrics are not of tubularform, however, but are flat, and I do not therefore claim them.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf` As a newmanufacture, the tubular fabric hereinbefore described, consisting ofspiral wires, which are inserted into each other laterally and connectedby tie-wires, the same being circular in transverse section,substantially as set forth.

FRANK FON TNEAU.

Vitnesses:

EDsoN SALIsBURY JoNEs, BENONI WATERMAN.

